Team Lead/Manager - Application/Product Security

Responsibilities

About the company
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve.
Join us.

About the Team
The Security Assurance team is responsible for identifying and reducing security risks for the company. In this team you'll have a unique opportunity to protect products and platforms as well as to drive key security initiatives, particularly in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day technical problems. You'll be part of a team that's developing new solutions to new challenges of a kind not previously addressed by big tech. It's working fast, at scale, and we're making a difference.

Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of passionate individuals focused on improving the security posture of the company's products and systems.
- Develop positive and trusted relationships with business partners both inside and outside of the company, playing a crucial part in the SDLC process and other work streams.
- Ensure individual support and talent development for direct reports, leading the team in terms of technical excellence and practicing ByteStyle principles.
- Review and analyze technical designs, architectures, existing systems services, operating systems, networks, and applications from a security perspective via black box testing, code reviews, automation, threat modeling, and vulnerability research.
- Discover security issues that appear under new threat scenarios, support incident response, forensics, remediation in a cross-functional environment driving towards incident resolution.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant majors.
- 5+ years of security engineering experience such as design review, threat modeling, security mitigation development, security tooling development or privacy engineering.
- 2+ years of people management in an engineering organization, strong leadership skills, and sound judgement.
- Advanced knowledge and understanding in various disciplines: web application security, mobile app security, network security, operating system internals and hardening, applied cryptography, cloud computing. You're expected to be an expert in at least one of these areas.
- Solid experience in writing and reviewing code in at least one of the following programming languages: JavaScript (Node JS), Go, Python, Java/Kotlin, or C++.
- Strong problem-solving skills and excellent debugging / troubleshooting skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- Passionate about self-studying cutting edge technologies and staying relevant. Strong communication and collaboration skills, and willing to take ownership.

ByteDance is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At ByteDance, our mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.